Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.

There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?

Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.

Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.